Have you ever visited the grave of a famous person?

[Pendrench]

This is sort of related to the "Famous People That You've Met" thread...have you ever visited the grave of someone who was famous?

Over the years, I've been to the following:

George Washington (Mt. Vernon, VA)
FDR (Hyde Park, NY)
Edgar Allan Poe (Westminster Hall and Burying Ground in Baltimore, MD)
John Wilkes Booth (Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, MD)
Francis Scott Key (Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD)

At the Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, VA) there was James Monroe and John Tyler (buried almost right next to each other), JEB Stuart, and Jefferson Davis.

And at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Sleepy Hollow, NY) there was Washington Irving and Andrew Carnegie.

I'm sure that I'm missing a few.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Audie Murphy, because it was part of the tour. Along with

JFK, Bobby, Jackie etc...

[Frank Cannon]

2. JFK and Bobby

And that was just because I was in the area. I tend not to dwell on the deaths of people I respect, but rather on how they lived.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Andrew Jackson

on a couple of school trips to the Hermitage.

[MrCoffee]

4. I went to Morrison's grave at Père Lachaise...

i know, i know.

And that cemetery in Vienna where they have Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert (the Zentralfriedhof).


Does stumbling into a cathedral in Rouen with crypts for Richard III, John, and some other king count?

[Sequoia]

19. When an ex-supervisor of mine was going to Paris I asked her

if she was going to visit Jim Morrison's grave and she replied she wouldn't embarass herself. I knew she'd have some smart aleck answer so I said, "But who'd know you?"

[MrCoffee]

21. i was young and stupid...seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Sequoia]

34. Well, it was a good thing to do.

Young, yes. Stupid, Never.

[Reciprocity]

39. Ditto

[Paladin]

76. It WAS A Good Thing To Do

Did you check out who else is planted in that incredible cemetary? Oscar Wilde, Chopin, etc., etc., etc.

When I went to Paris years ago, I reluctantly went to Morrison's grave as a favor to a good friend of mine who is a big Doors fan. I'm so glad I did so, it was a great experience, and Morrison's site was just a minor part of it....

[CBHagman]

51. It does indeed, MrCoffee.

I envy you!

I've been to Thurgood Marshall's grave, as well as JFK's and RFK's, all on a trip to Arlington National Cemetery.

I've lost track of who's buried in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, but I've been there, and also to Poets' Corner in Westminister Abbey, as well as all the other tombs there.

The most graphic (and really, really Catholic) experience I've ever had at a famous grave, if you can call it that, was the time I attended Mass at Westminster Cathedral in London and learned that they had the remains of the martyred John Southworth (one of the many hanged, drawn, and quartered) in a case right there in the cathedral. Don't worry; they have a silver mask over his face, and all the rest of him is dressed in vestments, so it's not as grisly as it might be. Still, what a shock it was!

This site will give you an idea of what I mean:

http://www.westminstercathedral.org.uk/art/art_chsg.html

And on a completely different note, some of my relatives are buried near the grave of the labor leader John Mitchell at Cathedral Cemetery in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

5. JFK and Bobby

Jackie wasn't there yet. Arlington is pretty humbling, even without the famous graves. All the war dead, and we keep adding more everyday.

:cry:

[MrCoffee]

22. welcome to DU

:hi:

[democracyindanger]

6. Jimi Hendrix

Redmond, WA.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Me too.

[Zomby Woof]

7. I used to see Jimi Hendrix regularly

A friend of mine lived across the street from the cemetery he is buried in at Renton, WA. I liked making at least an annual pilgrimmage when I lived up there.

Also...

George and Martha Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Douglas MacArthur
Christopher Columbus


Haven't made any of the Hollywood pilgrimmages, but I suppose I will sometime.

[AmandaRuth]

85. yes, Jimi

It was a rite of passage here in Seattle to get all liquored up and go to the cemetery, at least it was in the seventies.

[Left Is Write]

8. Well...not exactly,...

but I did drive past the cemetery where Ed Gein is supposedly buried.

[ohiosmith]

9. Grant's Tomb

[LiberalHeart]

23. Who was in it?

[AllegroRondo]

10. Dred Scott and Stonewall Jackson

both are at the same cemetary in North St Louis.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. Stonewall Jackson is buried in Lexington, VA...

He and his family are buried in this monumented plot:

Maybe there's a monument to him in St Louis? Though I can't imagine why...Seems like a slap in the face to Mr Scott.

[AllegroRondo]

71. Darn it, it was General Sherman

wrong General!

Also at the same cemetary:

Tenessee Williams
William Clark
Sara Teasdale
Adolphus Busch (founder of Anheiser-Busch)

[Trigger Hippie]

11. James Dean in Fairmont, Ind.

It was covered in lipstick kisses. :)

[Mad_Dem_X]

86. That's the one I want to visit

I've seen JFK and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to visit Jimmy's gravesite. And I'll probably leave a kiss. :)

[bikebloke]

12. Bruce Lee

Only because I heard that I lived a couple blocks away from the cemetary in Seattle. A couple people had tied their karate belts around the tomb stone.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. Saw Winston Churchill's grave in England this summer

He's buried in the graveyard of a small church in Woodstock, England. My group went to his ancestors' home at Blenheim Palace, and then our bus driver suggested that we had time to stop off and visit Churchill's final resting place. You'd never find it if you didn't already know where it was, though.

I also saw the graves of a bunch of Japanese historical figures in the woods surrounding the approach to the Okunoin Temple on Mount Koya, about fifty miles south of Kyoto.

[devilgrrl]

Not visited, more like ran into by accident...

Joe Louis at Arlington

Cecil B. DeMille, John Huston, and Mel Blanc at Hollywood Forever.

[LiberalHeart]

16. You must be a terrible driver.

[devilgrrl]

28. You should see the front end of my car!

:silly:

[kwassa]

55. I met Mel Blanc when he was still alive and kicking.

Job interview, actually. Cold call, he had no job to offer.

[LiberalHeart]

15. Emily Dickinson's grave in Amherst

[trof]

17. Thomas Jefferson. INSIDE the fence, man.

My son-in-law is a descendant and graduated from U. VA law school.
The 'family' gets special perks at Monticello.
:-)

[Mad_Dem_X]

87. ((JEALOUS))

Lucky you!

[Sequoia]

18. I'm impressed!

You'd better get on over to Abe Lincoln's grave. Washington Irving is rumored to be a distant cousin on our mom's side.

[Mutley]

24. I've been to Edgar Allan Poe's grave.

Spooooky. :D

[QMPMom]

25. John Kennedy

Robert Kennedy
Martin Luther King Jr.
George Washington
Benjamin Harrison
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Jackson
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Marilyn Monroe
Freddie Prinze

[malta blue]

26. Some cool ones and and one really corny one...

Uncle Sam (Troy, NY)
Kafka (Prague)
FDR (Hyde Park, NY)
The KFC "Colonel" & Zachary Taylor (Louisville, KY)
Sacajawea (Wyoming)
Christopher Columbus (Santo Domingo, DR) **there is a dispute as to whether he is really in there**
Eazy E (Los Angeles, CA)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. George and Martha Washington,

Thomas Jefferson
John and Robert Kennedy
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E Lee (and his horse, Traveller)
Edgar Allen Poe
John Paul Jones (though it's been suggested that the body in the US Naval Acadamy Chapel may not be his)

Probably others...

[Pendrench]

41. I saw John Paul Jones, too....forgot to include him on my original list.

We live in Severn, so we're pretty close to Annapolis.

Tim

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. We're near College Park...

My in-laws lived in Arnold. Howdy neighbor!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

29. Alexander Hamilton's grave

Trinity Church, NYC. :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. Oh, HELL, yes!

Westminster Abbey, anyone? There are so many famous folk buried there...

I don't even remember......

And Arlington National Cemetary.....RFK, and JFK......

:cry:

[blitzen]

31. Karl Marx's in London....very cool place

and a great part of the city

[blitzen]

32. and also Old Chief Joseph's in Joseph, OR

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. Paul Wellstone.

His grave is about a mile from my house.

Also a whole bunch of famous dead guys in Westminster Abbey.

[RetroLounge]

35. Yes

John F. Kennedy
Benjamin Franklin

and at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago:

Potter Palmer,
George Pullman - railroad car manufacturer
Cyrus Hall McCormick, who revolutionized American agriculture with the invention of the mechanized reaper and other farm machinery.
Daniel Burnham - civic planners and builders
Charles Wacker - civic planners and builders
Marshall Fields - the retailing genius
Phillip D. Amour - meatpacker
Mies Van der Rohe - Architect

RL

[Zavulon]

36. Jim Morrison, Josef Stalin, Lenin's tomb, JFK, Howard Taft,

George Washington, Marilyn Monroe, and I'm sure I'm missing a few too.

[Reciprocity]

37. Yes my first trip to Paris.

RIP Oscar Wilde

The dots you see are lip prints.

[GOPisEvil]

38. I've been to the LBJ ranch. His grave is there.

I've also been to Arlington National and saw all the famous grave markers there.

[Reciprocity]

40. What no Elvis? Come on I can't be the only one.

[Pendrench]

42. Not yet - although my in-laws were there about a year ago.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

53. Oh, yeah, I've been there, too!

[Frank Cannon]

74. I've been to his "grave" at Graceland, but since he's not really dead...

I didn't include him. :D

[flamingyouth]

43. Many film stars

I love Forest Lawn and Hollywood Forever cemeteries in the LA area. Too many stars to even mention.

And Chicago has amazing cemeteries as well. There I've visited Al Capone's grave and a few others whose names escape me now. :D

[BuelahWitch]

56. Hollywood Forever is great too

And a little more tourist friendly than the Forest Lawn cemeteries. I've also been to Calvary in East LA to see the graves of Ramon Novarro and Mabel Normand.

Last spring I visited the grave of Burr Tillstrom in Chicago.

[DBoon]

89. mention Hollywood forever reminds me

The graves of Johnny and DeDe Ramone are there...



DeDe's is a simple marker.

[bicentennial_baby]

44. Many, in Paris

Morrison, Piaf, Chopin, Degas, Sartre, DeBeauvoir, Gainsbourg, and many, many more.

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. If by "visited the grave of" you mean "murdered" then, yeah...

um... I mean, "no comment".

:mum'stheword:

[av8rdave]

47. Samuel Adams (Boston),

Benjamin Franklin (Philly), Isaac Newton (London). There are probably some others I haven't thought of.

[SaveElmer]

48. I've been to many of those too...

Plus Ben Franklin, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, JFK, RFK, Robert E. Lee, Harry Lighthorse Lee (REL's father)

[CatholicEdHead]

49. Hubert H Humphery

[pitohui]

50. st john the baptist

it isn't really a grave but the final resting place of his skull is in that treasury in munich

i am not quite sure why they have his skull in bavaria or where the rest of his body might be

it's all decorated with jewels and pearls and crap, pretty weird, visited w. a catholic friend and he assured me that it was equally weird to him

i mean it's a skull, on a pillow, covered in jewels and pearls, it is not decently buried or anything, it's right there on display

i honestly don't know what to think but i guess it beats the ashes scattering scene in the big lebowski

[mitchum]

52. James Dean, Duane Allman, Poe, Joe Jackson, Liberace

[petronius]

54. Billy the Kid...(nt)

[The Straight Story]

57. Bush's grandfather, buried here in Columbus, Ohio (nt)

[bumblebee1]

58. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Hyde Park was part of our tour of the Hudson River Valley.

[Brewman_Jax]

59. Marie Laveau

on vacation in New Orleans some years ago. Interesting to see the items left around the tomb, like flowers and combs.

[Dem_4_Life]

77. I visited that one too, it was interesting... nt

[terrya]

60. Lincoln's Tomb in Springfield, Illinois

Mary Todd Lincoln is also interred there.

[Orsino]

61. Paracelsus'

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12402

[undeterred]

62. john hancock

and his many progeny

[BOSSHOG]

63. ADMIRAL JEREMY MIKE BOORDA - ARLINGTON

The Sailors Admiral took his own life on 16 May 1996 while waiting for a reporter to ask questions about the ribbons and devices he wore. He has a simple white headstone far from the big monuments at Arlington and he is facing the Pentagon.

I had a great deal of respect for the man who rose from Seaman for four star Admiral.

[RedStateShame]

64. William Faulkner's grave, Oxford, Mississippi

Stumbled there piss-drunk, late at night, split a pint bottle of Jim Beam with him(I assume his ghost drank the half-bottle I left there.), and a kindly Ole Miss campus policeman gave me a ride back to the dorm where I was staying.

[RedStateShame]

65. Delete--accidental double post

The Internets is hard work!!

[crim son]

66. Ummmm, the witch of Bucksport?

There's a flaw in her headstone which looks like a foot. Don't ask.

[Burma Jones]

67. I used to take dates to F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's grave in Rockville, MD

I like the brainy women......Once, late at night - while intoxicated, I fell into a freshly dug grave there that had been covered with a piece of plywood. That grave turned out to be the Fitzgeralds' Daughter's who was to be interred that Saturday

I've been to Arlington, so there's a bunch there

I've sung in the National Cathedral, so I leaned up against Woodrow Wilson's handsome tomb and saw Helen Keller's tomb as well...no jokes please.

I had "relations" on top of Saint Elizabeth Seton's original tomb....she had already been moved.....

I used to live across the street from a Cemetery, in Galesburg, IL, which held the final resting place of G.W. Ferris, the inventor of the Ferris Wheel.

Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton,

[kwassa]

69. I just wave as I drive by on Rockville Pike.

of course, I usually get stuck in the corner in traffic.

[City Lights]

68. Here's my list (that I remember):

JFK, RFK, Lincoln, Truman, Eisenhower, Jefferson, Washington, Frank Sinatra, Mother Jones, Buffalo Bill, Charles Darwin, and all the former Kings and Queens of England buried at Westminster Abbey.

[kwassa]

70. Boothill Cemetary, Tombstone, Arizona

Lots of dead bad guys.

The only graveyard I've ever been to where the only entrance is through the gift shop.

[LibertyLover]

72. Tomb of Tutankhamun

Napoleon's tomb, Windsor Chapel (dead royals), Westminster Abbey (more dead royals and lots of other famous and not so famous dead people), tomb of Julius II, Lenin's tomb, Mao's tomb, and lots more I can't think of right now.

[Pendrench]

73. Has anyone heard of Manus Hand? He's been to almost all of the US President's graves

Here's a link to his website (hope it works): http://www.diplom.org/manus/Presidents/

I've always liked Presidential history, so when I first had access to the internet, I did I search for presidents, and his name came up. It look like he only has 4 more presidential grave-sites to visit: Filmore, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan (not only does he visit each site, but he has his picture taken next to the grave).

Tim

[OneTwentyoNine]

75. Walter Beech and Clyde Cessna

One in Wichita and Cessna being down by Rago Kansas. Aviation is in your blood if you live in Wichita.

[catmandu57]

78. Harry Truman

Buffalo Bill Cody. Here's an interesting site http://findagrave.com

[Beausoir]

79. Charles Lindbergh. Hana, Maui, Hawaii. The most beautiful place

I've ever seen. A simple cemetery on a windswept ocean cliff.

[EFerrari]

80. Poets Corner in London. Lots of distinguished bones there.

:)

[BrotherBuzz]

81. My Great Uncle (X 11) John in Westminster Cathedral

Well, he was buried for many years, but now they have him on display like an object in damn traveling freak sideshow. :shrug:

[Bear down under]

82. The Emperor Akbar

At Sikandra. It was a moving experience; he great man lies there so utterly alone.

Some years ago I visited Westminster Abbey to pay my respects to (among others) Henry Purcell. Couldn't find his tomb, and then I looked down and the slab beneath my feet was inscribed "hic jacet Henricius Purcell"...

The explorer Thomas Livingstone Mitchell is buried in St Steven's cemetery up the road from me, and a couple of years ago I took a cutting from the ancient and beautiful rose growing on his grave. The rose is gone now -- thanks to some Roundup-happy cemetery manager -- but it still blooms in my cousin's garden in the country.

[Shine]

83. Yes, by default....my MIL is interred at very famous place in LA:

http://www.seeing-stars.com/Buried2/PierceBros.shtml

It's pretty trippy to visit there. Biggest bang for your buck and all that....:D

[spindrifter]

84. Evita Peron

In Buenos Aires you can hardly help but go to La Recoleta and look for Evita's resting spot. I'm a total fan of South American cemeteries. La Recoleta is truly special--almost a small city of the wealthy deceased. Even after all these years, there are the rose petals and stalks of flowers woven into the grillwork of Evita's mausoleum.

[DBoon]

88. Marilyn Monroe and Frank Zappa

who are maybe 40 feet from each other.

Marilyn in a crypt, Frank in an unmarked spot of land by a tree (pointed out to me by a park employee).

And no, the tree wasn't growing out of the shoulder of a large mountain

[NJ Democrats]

90. Babe Ruth among others

Lets see:
John Adams
John Qunicy Adams
FDR
Elenor Roosevelt
George Washington
JFK
RFK
Babe Ruth
Billy Martin
Ben Franklin
Sam Adams
John Hancock
Prob others I can't think of.

[fishwax]

91. Renaissance artist Raphael

and the first leader of a united Italy (Vittorio Emmanuele) are both buried in the Pantheon in Rome. Caesar is buried in the forum, and St. Peter's Basilica houses a pope or two. I saw the crypt of Francis of Asissi and a few of his followers in Asissi.

Here in the states the only ones that pop to mind are Herbert Hoover and his wife (at the Hoover library in Iowa) and Wild Bill Hickok in Deadwood. It seems like I've been to others, but I can't think of them now ...

[JCMach1]

92. Kahlil Gibran in Bsharri, Lebanon

Very cool and beautiful place.

[momophile]

93. MLK, Jim Morrison, Grace Kelly, Bruce Goff, FL Wright,

Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, all those other ones at Pere Lachaise.